Topic: Sen. Al Franken
Several stories are popping up on news sites stirring up privacy panic over Google Glass, a sort of wearable smartphone. While the glasses look relatively unassuming on the user and…
Euclid, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up that tracks consumer shopping habits in stores via their WiFi enabled smart phones has run smack dab into the ongoing privacy debate in Washington about…
Sen. Ron Wyden is practically a rock star among the Internet community. Hailed as the “Senator from the Internet,” the Democratic member from Oregon seemed to relish the accolades during…
Sen. Al Franken's (D-Minn.) location privacy bill requiring companies to get permission from users before collecting their location information was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday afternoon in…
The California Attorney General filed suit against Delta Airlines for violating the state's online privacy law. According to the complaint filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, Delta's app, called Fly…
A new report from the Government Accountability Office today is giving privacy advocates another opportunity to press for new laws that could potentially limit the promise of mobile advertising. Consumers have…
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) kicked over a new front on the privacy debate in Washington, D.C. today, holding a hearing to explore facial recognition technology and raise awareness about its…
Facebook's use of facial recognition technology to help users identify and tag people in posted photos will be scrutinized during a Senate subcommittee hearing to examine the impact of facial…
Facebook and Netflix could be facing an uphill battle in the Senate. The two want to see legislation that would pave the way for users to share their streaming Netflix…
Carrier IQ, a company that sells real-time diagnostic tracking software to wireless carriers, has found itself in the crosshairs of Congress over privacy concerns. Worries were raised when an Android…
